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082			_a305.51220954 _bAMB
100			_aAmbedkar, B. R. _93599
245		0	_aAnnihilation of caste : _b the annotated critical edition
260			_aNew Delhi _bNavayana _c1936
300			_a415p.
520			_a“What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India.” —Anand Teltumbde, author of The Persistence of Caste B.R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste is one of the most important, yet neglected, works of political writing from India. Written in 1936, it is an audacious denunciation of Hinduism and its caste system. Ambedkar – a figure like W.E.B. Du Bois – offers a scholarly critique of Hindu scriptures, scriptures that sanction a rigidly hierarchical and iniquitous social system. The world’s best-known Hindu, Mahatma Gandhi, responded publicly to the provocation. The hatchet was never buried
650			_aIndia _9456
650			_aCaste _92536
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